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Emma Wilkinson
@emmajourno.bsky.social
Freelance journalist writing about medicine/health/biosciences. Bylines in BMJ, Pulse, Pharmaceutical Journal, Sunday Times, Lancet, BBC and more. Co-founder Freelancing for Journalists. Often found running up Sheffield hills.
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ULTRA WOMEN: The trailblazers defying sexism in sport will be published by Canbury Press in May (available to pre-order now). 'A masterful work that will challenge your views on the physical capabilities of all women' – Sue Anstiss, author www.canburypress.com/collections/...
PRESALE: Ultra Women by Lily Canter and Emma Wilkinson (ISBN: 9781914487101)
PRESALE. Book will be published on May 8th 2025. Buy it now and receive before publication. Books will be sent about two weeks from publication day (May 8th 2025). When it comes to the toughest races ...
www.canburypress.com
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@emmajourno.bsky.social @lilycanter.bsky.social rightly feature in @theguardian.com sports books of the year column yesterday! ⭐️
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Just spent my Friday evening at two 5-aside football matches in the freezing rain and then solving an Xbox password loop of doom which took AN HOUR 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ me and Microsoft are not on speaking terms
December 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Just popped out to see Kevin Sinfield who was running nearby on his 7 ultras in 7 days for MND but he was too fast for everyone! Just got to the kids primary in time to hear the teacher explain they had to take their lovely banners back in because they'd missed him by 10 min - whoops!!
December 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hey - do I know anyone with an FT subscription who can help me out with an article (I promise I pay for a lot of journalism but I'm not on banker money)
a donkey is standing on a dirt field and asking for something .
ALT: a donkey is standing on a dirt field and asking for something .
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I already subscribe and have done for ages and it is def money well spent. Come on Sheffield folk, get signing up!
In just *three days* we're already over halfway to our month's target of 100 new members, which would take us to 3,000 total members! Which would be a *huge* win for independent local journalism.

Could you get us over the line?

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk#/portal/signup
December 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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"It broke my heart," one woman told us about lawyer Andrew Milne's demands for tens of thousands of pounds.

Milne stopped answering our e-mails. So we went to get some answers in person.

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/in-an-costa-...
In a Costa in east London, we finally put some questions to Andrew Milne
Why is he sending threatening letters? Does he think he’s committed fraud? And will he be paying the money back?
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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We need 100 more members to hit our 2025 target of 3,000!

Could you be one of the ones to get us there? 6 people already on the board this morning!

www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk#/portal/signup
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Ooh look at @thetimes.com sports books of 2025. @lilycanter.bsky.social and I did not know this was happening until I started getting WhatsApp messages as Granny had spotted it. Not bad for a book that was rejected by multiple publishers who weren't interested in women's stories.
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Amazing day at the William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards yesterday! Our book Ultra Women definitely made an impression and it was fantastic to make the final shortlist.
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Amazing update from @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social about the impact of their reporting on Andrew Milne. Doesn't seem like he's going to be getting away with his leasehold scamming any more. Particularly enjoyed this part.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Fave pic from yesterdays @bookieprize.bsky.social ceremony. @lilycanter.bsky.social and I are thrilled we made it as far as the shortlist and it was hilarious to be collectively referred to as the Ultra Women for a day 🤣
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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We just wanted to flag up our Black Friday Sale. You can get 30% off annual subscription to the Freelancing for Journalists newsletter before Dec 5th.
That’s just £28 for the whole year. You can also gift it to a friend for Christmas🎄
freelancingforjournalists.substack.com/subscribe?co...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Imagine if adults fidgeted in the same way as children. Here’s where the 10yo absentmindedly ended up while telling me about the laser quest party he’d just been to. Literally climbing the walls (cabinets).
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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This should be a much, much bigger story than it is playing as so far. Is it the 'Wales' bit that's distracting? Just because it's a devolved administration is hardly the point. This is a corrupt operator that Reform embraced.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches
Police say Nathan Gill received at least £40,000 while he was an MEP from Oleg Voloshyn, an alleged Russian asset
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This piece has stirred up a lot of debate. There is clearly much work to do in oversight of how trusts are treating their locally employed doctors, the contracts they are on and training offered. Here’s a rapid response from the @rcphysicians.bsky.social www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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4/ Meanwhile, an expose in the BMJ brought the experiences of these locally-employed doctors, in short-term, non-standard "gig economy" contracts, into sharp focus.

You can read that one here:

www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Revealed: Thousands of NHS doctors are trapped in insecure “gig economy” contracts
Thousands of locally employed doctors—many of them international graduates and from ethnic minorities—are trapped in insecure NHS contracts with no access to training, career progression, or national ...
www.bmj.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
As a health journalist I often come across scams/grifts where there has been a complete failure of regulation. This is magnitudes above that.
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Anyone who's read me ranting about screening will know I'm all for thinking critically about health care. But there's a reason maternal mortality has more than halved in the last 40 years. There's a reason maternal mortality is used as a proxy for health care quality globally.
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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1/ The medical workforce and the #SASsix, a Saturday morning thread...

The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted two related publications relating to workforce this week. Taken together, they paint a stark picture of the current medical workforce.
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This might be one of the most disturbing pieces I’ve ever read. Staggering investigative work from Sirin Kale and Lucy Osbourne www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM